The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects.
"Right now law enforcement carefully monitors all firearms sales to those on the terror watch list," said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam. "Injecting the attorney general into the process just politicizes it."
However, a 2005 study by the
Government Accountability Office found that 35 of 44 firearm purchase attempts over a five-month period made by known or suspected terrorists were approved by the federal law enforcement officials.

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All the law did was add to the state’s public law enforcement officials do is enforce a federal law. Obama and his idiot followers are saying it is a federal law to be enforced and should not be done by a state. Ok so are Firearms. Federal law says I can own an automatic rifle or suppressed rifle or pistol. Yet, certain cities have taken it upon themselves as well as some states in an attempt to keep you from owning hardly any firearm. Look at the ridiculous laws of Chicago, IL and the state of California. So tell me just exactly how asking a Hispanic person to present a driver’s license (which you can only get if you have a social security card / birth certificate / or pass port with visa. So how is it that I am violating someone’s right by asking them if they are here legally??? Asking if they are here legally means they are here illegally and hence they are illegal and have committed a crime.
to guy who said i dont know the law
Obviously you have not travelled abroad or very little. Every country I have been to required me to keep my passport on me at all times, especially when confronted by the polizei, policia, police or what ever i was questioned by. Second I can ask a mexican to produce a driver’s license and proper documentation. If i see them operating a vehicle and they commit an infraction and they do not have a driver’s license or proper identification i just ask them if they are here illegally. They will say yes cause they know they will not get deported. One reason immigrants need to carry information on them at all times is cause one if they are injured we can notify the proper folks, two if they hit your vehicle with their vehicle yo can get yours fixed, and three some states require its OWN CITIZENS to carry ID ESPECIALLY WHEN OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE. And as for your clueless comment on the law ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and FIREARMS) regulate gun control.